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I am addicted to Oblivion.....I bought it on Monday, second hand, and figured it sounded okay. I've clocked up over 23 hours playing time already. I've never been this hooked on …
... all of the initial vampire attributes.
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Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…
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Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
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Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
... sys var to make it permanent.
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Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
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The Unofficial Official 25th Anniversary celebrations and Website announcement threadAs Martijn's going to be away during the festivities, can people report what they're doing here please, as and when they have something to announce. …
For some strange reason, in work today I wrote on "23rd April 2007 - We Must Perform A Quirkafleeg!" on a blank sheet of paper using a blue permanent marker and pinned it to the wall. The meaning was lost on everyone.
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The Unofficial Official 25th Anniversary celebrations and Website announcement threadAs Martijn's going to be away during the festivities, can people report what they're doing here please, as and when they have something to announce. …
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Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
I could always remember the loading screen noise for Psion Chequered Flag - mainly because the flag was made using colour attributes only so it kind of went 'dee daw dee daw' as it painted them in...
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Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
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Spectrum designers drawing board on Ebay1 day left if any ones interested
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Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…
... much prefer Coleman to take permanent charge. Can't see for ...The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…
... much prefer Coleman to take permanent charge. Can't see for ...Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... the screen and no colour attributes. The LCD panels themselves are ...Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... , with the same again for attributes 8K further on. With careful ...Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... , with the same again for attributes 8K further on. With careful ...Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... had the same hi-res attributes as SAM's mode 2 ... gap between the data and attributes too?
[QUOTE]I ...Happy Thingybob Shaun of Bebbington.And many more so, and may they all end up on Fridays! Because that's like a free-floating excuse for a three day bash, and an excellent Monday hango…
Happy 30th. Time to quit playing computer games and wear a permanent frown.Happy Thingybob Shaun of Bebbington.And many more so, and may they all end up on Fridays! Because that's like a free-floating excuse for a three day bash, and an excellent Monday hango…
[QUOTE=beanz;187544]Happy 30th. Time to quit playing computer games and wear a permanent frown.[/QUOTE]
I thought you were supposed to do the opposite!
Oh no ... where's my ointment!?!? :oDeath of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
... desk at home has a permanent warp from the big Trinitron ...48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... see some trashed pixels and attributes, well, at least border. This ...48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... , don't bet on flashing attributes or pixels. Don't forget ... paper area and set the attributes all to black paper/red ...JSW: 'entrance to hades'this room always used to bug me when I was a kid playing it because even though its always "game-over" whenever you go in there, it looks like there …
... you could tell when the attributes were being loaded. [B]Mrs ...Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
... that will write m$ to attributes area.
Has it ...Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
... that will write m$ to attributes area.
Has it ...Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…
... ) and 640x200x16 (graphics, with 8x1 attributes). Also this machine has onboard ...Fate of the Spectrum drawing board?Dear All, I thought you might be interested, or even relieved to hear that the Science Museum has agreed today to take the drawing board as a permane…
... museum have got it for permanent display. Praps they could set ...Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…
The whole "Maddie" thing...Can you say "trial by media"? How about "media over-reaction"? Had "Maddie" been a poor, ugly, black child, this would never have been headline news…
... the "Maddie" story require a permanent BBC base, including shooting newsreaders ...Running code from the display memory?Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used by the display file? If you were really out of memory and some part of screen is not u…
Sure it is. Some games did that, storing parts of their code in the screen memory. Also, many disassemblers were stored entirely in screen memory, some of them even using both pixels and attributes for the code.
Patrik